51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know the plans that I [am] planning concerning you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

Many plans [are] in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established.

He will repay my enemies for their evil; in your faithfulness destroy them.

Commit your work to Yahweh, and your plans will be established.

"I know that you can do all [things], and [any] scheme from you will not be thwarted.

this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed [by] nailing to [a cross] through the hand of lawless men.

The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.

To mortals [belong] the plans of the heart, but from Yahweh [comes] the answer of the tongue.

Moreover, Yahweh let [it be] made known to me, and I knew. Then you showed me their deeds.

Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done-- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I [tried to] proclaim and tell [of them], they would be too numerous to count.

"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh.

And we know that all [things] work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to [his] purpose,

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Then I saw all the work of God--man [is] not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims [that he] knows it, he cannot find it.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit,"

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

[because] God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

"Look, God [is] exalted, and we do not know [him]; the number of his years is unsearchable.

This God--his way [is] blameless. The word of Yahweh [is] flawless. He [is] a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him

in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,

" 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{And then} on that day, things will come up on your mind, and you will devise evil plans.

Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.

Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever, the intents of his heart {from one generation to the next}.

I know, Yahweh, that to the human [is] not his [own] way, nor to a person [is the] walking and the directing of his [own] step.

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted.

Do not grant, O Yahweh, [the] desires of [the] wicked. Do not allow [them] to attain their plan, lest they be exalted. Selah

who from [the] beginning declares [the] end, and from before, [things] that have not been done, who says, 'My plan shall stand,' and, 'I will accomplish all my wishes,'

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel to oppose Yahweh.

"For [as] [the] heavens are {higher} than [the] earth, so my ways are {higher} than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

All Yahweh has made [is] for his purpose, and even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Now {therefore} amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you.

to do all that your hand and plan had predestined to take place.

For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate [it]? And his hand [is] stretched out, and who will turn it back?

in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times for you

For to us God has revealed [them] through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all [things], even the depths of God.

to whom God wanted to make known what [is] the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

{Commit to} Yahweh your way; Trust also on him and he will act.

[The] Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

and to enlighten everyone [as to] what [is] the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all [things],

Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make {a unanimous decision} and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."